New Athletics Director Seeics improvement For Atliietes
By Dave Snyder
Dr. James C. Crabbe stepped
into the St. Andrews community
on June 15, and has already at
tracted attention from students
and administration alike. From
the administration’s viewpoint,
Dr. Crabbe is the athletic director
with the ambition to affect major
positive change in St. Andrews’
athletics. From the students’
viewpoint. Dr. Crabbe is the man
who has taken their racquetball
racquets from them.
Dr.'' Crabbe’s office in the
physical education center proudly
displays five diplomas and
awards behind his desk, where
papers are held down by a hand
made paperweight labeled,
“Dad’s papers.” He appesu-s very
relaxed and confident, qualities
necessary in the man whose task
is to revitalize the athletic depart
ment. When asked how his
philosophy of athletics blends
well with St. Andrews’
philosophy of liberal education,
he calmly walks over to his desk
and pulls out a college catalog.
Reading the eloquent phrase
about the goals of a liberal educa
tion, he explains how the athletics
department pursues those same
goals.
“We have the optimum
classroom situation in athletics,”
he explains. “Highly qualified in
dividuals come to a team and seek
instruction from dedicated
teachers who work with the
players to improve his or her
skills and is willing to sacrifice
time to make athletic participa
tion a good educational ex
perience. Especially in Division
ni. In four years, a singular
coach has probably done more for
the individual athlete than any
combination of his professors.”
He further elaborates on his
concern for the individual, “all
decisions made in this depart
ment are made with reference to
the question, ‘Is this right for the
student?”
The ambition wtiich so pleases
those who hired him is evident
•when he speaks of his plans for
the future. He is always very
careful, however, to be pragmatic
and never to set goals too high.
He thinks that himself and the
administration budget committee
see “eye-to-ejre” concerning the
rate which the athletic depart
ment can be brought up to date.
His first goal is the bringing to
a high level of competitiveness all
the athletic programs. St. An
drews supports 11 athletic teams
and Dr. Crabbe’s goal is to make
them all successful.
“Success is not necessarily
measured in the win-loss column,
but in the effort the athletes put
into the sport and the enjoyment
which they get out of it,” Dr.
Crabbe explains, “Saying ‘Win,
Win, Win,’'... That’s baloney!”
For physical education majors,
the facilities must be upgraded
drastically. His first project is the
weight room. The weight room is
inadequate for “serious” weight
training and Dr. Crabbe's goal is
to make the weight room a state-
of-the-art facility.
He believes in doing things
right the first time. Instead of
saving money by putting in small
improvements in the weight room
that will need to be replaced after
a short time anyaway, he wishes
to hold out a wMle until a
“serious weight trtiining facility’
can be obtained.
He sees the improvement of the
physical facilities as a major op
portunity for an improved rela
tionship with the citizens of the
Laurinburg community.
His next big goal, one that can
be accomplished immediately, is
the renovation of the intramurals
at St. Andrews. This, he feels,
provides an opportunity for all St.
Andrews’ students to participate
in athletics and exercise.
“I’m a firm believer that a per
son should set at least an hour of
exercise every other day,” Dr.
Crabbe’s academic expertise is
the cardiovascular system.
He once taught a class on how
to run a marathon, in which 24 of
28 students ran their marathon
on the last day of class. A St. An
drews Calculus class doesn’t have
that kind of success.
As far as most St. Andrews’
students are concerned, all this is
overshadowed by Dr. Crabbbe’s
policy decision to halt the issuing
of equipment to St. Andrews
students. No longer are basket
balls, racquets and racquetballs
available for the free use by St.
Andrews’ students. In keeping
with the maxim, “Do it right or
don’t do it,” Dr. Crabbe knew the
department couldn’t afford to
issue equipment right. Purchas
ing equipment to replace the
stolen goods would cost too
much.
Last year, the towel supply was
depleted from over 250 towels to
40. Racquets were destroyed and
racquetballs were lost and stolen.
Also, according to Dr. Crabbe,
the system was discriminatory in
nature in that it doesn’t issue ten
nis equipment to tennis players,
baseball equipment to baseball
players, etc. As far as students
are concerned, the discriminatory
aspect of the program could be re
tained if it were to be reinstated.
The baseball players never before
seemed to want to have equip
ment, while the racquets were ob
viously a well-used item. To
reinstate the program, it would
have to be operated in a way that
assured equipment would not be
stolen.
Dr. Crabbe replaces Julian
Smith as athletic director, whose
responsibilities include being
director of the physical education
program. He comes from Coe Col
lege in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He
graduated in 1960 from the
United States Military Academy
where he earned B.S. degree in
engineering. His masters and doc
torate in physical education were
earned at the University of Iowa.
Following his doctoral program
he served on the faculties of
California Polytechnic State
University and of the University
of Nebraska.
SAGE 221—An Evaluation
By Dave Arnold
It is common knowledge to
most students that the SAGE
program was restructured last
year. What the sophmores know
now as SAGE 221 had been of
fered in the past as SAGE 104, to
freshmen. It is this restructuring
that has been a topic of conversa
tion among SAGE students these
past couple of weeks.
SAGE 221 is the study of world
cultures and Christianity, and the
present topic of converstaion is
the big bang theory and biologial
evolution. As far as this is con-
cered the students seem not to
have any qualms for the most
part. They consider the course
material intriguing, or at least in
tersting, the feeling is that by
learning about the big bang and
biological evolution once can
come to a better understanding of
the implications of what it means
to be human.
The only problem has been a
conflict between a religious tradi
tion of creationism and, let us
say, a Darwinist tradition of
evolution. But this had only hap
pened in a small number of peo
ple. Thus one would venture to
say (.hat as a class the sophmores
are enjoying SAGE 221.
Class structure and presenta
tion, on the other hand, is where
many of the sophmores are fin
ing fault with SAGE. The class
is being taught by a team *f
eleven professors, each with a
separate section. There are also
the plenary sessions where the
whole sophmore class meets
together for lecture, it is with
these separate sections and the
plenarys that the students find
fault. It seems that all the
separate sections are expected to
cover the same material at the
same time in order for ther
students to take the same stan
dardized'£fests.'The grievance has '
been that, in theory, this would be
fine. But in actually, we have this
group of professors, all from dif
ferent fields and interests, trying
to teach the same thing in synch
with each other.
The other grievance is with the
plenary session. Many students
feel that valuable time is being
wasted or that the time could be
spent more productively.
The only recommendation
which has been voiced, though, is
that the team should reassess u,s
goals and review the methods by
which they wish to achieve those
goals.
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